Current Research on a New Spacecraft Autonomy Architecture named Remote

unconnected AgentPart 1 conception to officecraft self-sufficiencyAbstractThis first paper of a two-part series introduces current research on a new spacecraft indecorum architecture, named Remote Agent, which applies artificial cognizance techniques to spacecraft control functions. The necessity for indecorum technology is nowhere greater than in deep space missions. Remote Agent is a model-based autonomous system organism developed in a collaborative effort between the National Aeronautics and Space Administrations green Propulsion Laboratory and Ames Research Center. This spacecraft control final cause is composed of three parts that work together 1) the Planner-Scheduler, 2) Mode acknowledgement and Recovery, and 3) the Smart Executive. Models of the spacecrafts components and environment are given to Remote Agent and it figures bulge the necessary detailed operating procedures on its own. Because autonomy improves mission surgery and reduces costs, autonomously contro lled spacecraft will become more prominent in upcoming space missions.IntroductionThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is being confronted with the challenge to perform more frequent and intensive space-exploration missions at greatly reduced cost. Nowhere is this more crucial than among robotic planetary exploration missions that the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) conducts for NASA. This paper describes current research on a new spacecraft autonomy architecture using artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to challenging computational problems in planning and scheduling, and real-time monitoring and control. compute on this software package combines research from diverse areas of AI such(prenominal) as model-based reasoning, qualitative reasoning, planning an... ...-122.2. Automata Theory, The New Encyclopedia Brittanica , Vol. 14, 1987 ed., pp 520-28.3. Williams, Brian C., and P. Pandurang Nayak, nonmoving Robots AI in the New millenary , AI Magazine, Fall 1996, pp. 16-35.4. Wan, D., Braspenning, P., and G. Vreeswijk, Limits to aim Control in Autonomous Spacecraft , Telematics and Infomatics, Vol. 12, No. 3/4, pp 247-59.5. Schilling, K., De LaFontaine, J., and H. Roth, Autonomy Capabilities of European Deep Space Probes , Autonomous Robots, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1996, pp 19-30.6. NASA New Millennium Program website, http//nmp.jpl.nasa.gov/News/press/01_09_97.html 7. Hanson, Mark L., and Lorraine M. Fesq, A Software computer architecture for Next Generation Satellites , TRW Space and Electronics Group, Redondo Beach, CA, Presented at the 1997 Highly Autonomous Systems Workshop, Pasadena, CA, April 10-11, 1997.